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Jean Chen Ho Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Jean Chen Ho is an author. Author of FIONA AND JANE (now out in paperback!) 📚 2023-24 Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Skidmore College 📝 she/her/tā

21 books
Book Cover for: A Burst of Light and Other Essays, Audre Lorde

A Burst of Light and Other Essays

Audre Lorde
Jean Chen HoJean Chen Ho

I’ve been reading A BURST OF LIGHT & Other Essays this week for soul nourishment

Hardcover, 2017

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Edinburgh, Alexander Chee

Edinburgh

Alexander Chee
Jean Chen HoJean Chen Ho

The people at my residency are reading: a book about salmon, Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres, Alexander Chee Edinburgh, and Claudia Rankine Just Us

Paperback, 2016

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Heartbroke, Chelsea Bieker

Heartbroke

Chelsea Bieker
Jean Chen HoJean Chen Ho

Bieker offers an unsentimental view of the hardscrabble lives of the white working class in a less romanticized region of California.

Paperback, 2023

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: In the Not Quite Dark: Stories, Dana Johnson

In the Not Quite Dark: Stories

Dana Johnson
Jean Chen HoJean Chen Ho

@DeniseHamilton_ @AltaJournal I love Elsewhere, California! Dana Johnson’s fiction is an inspiration. Love her short stories

Paperback, 2016

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Elsewhere, California, Dana Johnson

Elsewhere, California

Dana Johnson
Jean Chen HoJean Chen Ho

@DeniseHamilton_ @AltaJournal I love Elsewhere, California! Dana Johnson’s fiction is an inspiration. Love her short stories

Paperback, 2012

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Valleyesque: Stories, Fernando A. Flores

Valleyesque: Stories

Fernando A. Flores
Jean Chen HoJean Chen Ho

Such a pleasure to read and review these three new story collections for @nytimesbooks: Chelsea Bieker’s HEARTBROKE, Fernando A. Flores’s VALLEYESQUE, and Erica Plouffe Lazure PROOF OF ME😍🤓☺️ https://t.co/sYjttLedkE

Paperback, 2022

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Sarahland, Sam Cohen

Sarahland

Sam Cohen
Jean Chen HoJean Chen Ho

Today is the publication day for Sam Cohen’s SARAHLAND! 🥳🦄💖💐 I’m very excited for this story collection and tonight’s @skylightbooks event with Sam and Nikki Darling❤️ You should read this book if you’re into stories about smart funny strange sexy queer femmes✨✨✨ https://t.co/H9T4vQpbbJ

Paperback, 2022

$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: How to Read Now: Essays, Elaine Castillo

How to Read Now: Essays

Elaine Castillo
Jean Chen HoJean Chen Ho

Finished HOW TO READ NOW by Elaine Castillo and there’s so many good things but let me tell you I was SOBBING at the chapter on Asian films & how she describes Chang Chen’s character in HAPPY TOGETHER caring for heartbroken Tony Leung, the scene with the tape recorder😭 https://t.co/W82ySFmpCZ

Hardcover, 2022

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Counterfeit, Kirstin Chen

Counterfeit

Kirstin Chen
Jean Chen HoJean Chen Ho

@kirstin_chen I’ll bring you a Chanel rapid test at the Counterfeit reading😹

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir, Margo Jefferson

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Margo Jefferson
Jean Chen HoJean Chen Ho

@vauhinivara Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson is so amazing for this

Paperback, 2023

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book